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Article: Abelardo Morell.
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- ArtUS
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- March 22, 2009
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Bonni Benrubi Gallery | New York, New York
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In a photographic world dominated by the digital, a few artists continue to explore the perceptual and cognitive consequences of older technologies: Barbara Ess, for instance, works with the pinhole camera, and Abelardo Morell the camera obscura. Such practitioners are not in thrall to the would-be monopolists of the computer industry. They remind us that we ourselves can make at least some of our own equipment with which to explore the creation of images by the contrived fall of light.
Any darkened chamber, whether the size of a shoebox or of a room, pierced by a small ...